Smoke and cinder deflector for cars



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C. T. LUTHY.

SMOKE AND GINDER DBFLBGTOR FOR GARS.

No. 350,888. Patented Oct. 12, 1886.A

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"IIIIIIUHI'L- Er specification, and in which like letters of refllNiTEnSTATES PATENT @Ericao CHARLES T. LU'IHY, OF PEORIA, ILLINOIS.

SMOKE AND CINDER DEFLECTOR FOR CARS.

EPECIFICATIOII forming part of Letters Patent No. 350,888, dated Octoberl2, 1886.

Afplieation filed April 15, 1886. Serial No. 198,906. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GHARLEs T. LUTHY, of I Peoria, in the county ofPeoria, State of Illinois, have invented an Improved Smoke and CinderDetlector for Cars; and I do hereby declare that the following` is afull, clear, and eX- f act description thereof.

The object of thisinvention is the construction of a simpler and moreeffective means for keeping away from the passenger-cars of a railw(y-train the smoke and cinders issuing from the smoke-stack of theengine. thereof.

I have discovered by observation and experiment that a moving traincarries with it an enveloping air shaft ofsome few feetin thickness. Inaddition to this motion of the air there are many transverse currentsand eddies, which tend to suck in against the sides of the cars whateversmoke, soot, or cinders come into the outer portions of the air shaft.Although this air envelope may not move with the saine velocity as thetrain, it still keeps with the saine sufficiently to permit the smokeand cinders carried thereby to enter every aperture which there may bein the sides or ends of the cars; hence it becomes extremely difficultto ventilate the cars without permitting the entrance of thedisagreeable products of combustion. In case there is a very stronglateral wind the smoke and cinders may be carried quickly enough to oneside to keep them from beinginuenced by the moving air envelope, andthereby dashed against and into the cars; but with simply a light windor a parallel breeze there is no relief'.

To keep the smoke and other products of combustion issuing` from theengines smokestack from coming under the intluence of thebefore-described movingair envelope, I have invented the smokedetleetingconduit, attached to the smoke-stack and adapted to convey thecombustion products therefrom to the leeward of the engine and outsideof all possibility of contact with the said air envelope.

In the drawings which form a part of this erence refer to like parts,Figure l represents a perspective view of an engine smoke-stack havingmy detlector connected thereto. Fig. 2 is a diagram representing atrain, the delector, and air envelope.

Referring to the drawings, B is the locomotive, S, the smoke-stack. Thedotted lines U are the borders of the air envelope. V is the smoke, Athe detlector, and B is the hood connecting said deliector to thesmoke-stack. The hood B, I usually secure to the smoke-stack above andto the rear of the same, and have it somewhat funnelshaped or conical,with the larger month forward. To the rear and smaller end of the hood Bis hinged, pivoted, or otherwise loosely secured the detlector-eonduitA, which may be of uniform diameter or slightly tapering toward its freeend. This detlectorconduit may be adapted to swing about its looseattaching-point in either a horizontal plane or one more or lessvertical. All that is necessary is to have the free end of the deiectorcapable of directing a current passing through it obliquely upward or toeither side of the engine, and to asuficient distance therefrom to sendit free oi' the air envelope aforesaid.

The means which I have adopted, and show in the drawings, for shiftingthe deliector-conduit to enable it to discharge to leeward consists informing the inner end of the deflector A with an elbow, swiveling thiselbow A to the rear of the hood, and rigidly connecting said deflectorwith the rock-shaft C, which, running back into the cab of the engine,and being provided with the operating-lever Dand a lock, E, enables theengineer to shift the delector and secure it in the desired position.

In use, the train traveling at a good speed, the engineer notices ifthere is any transverse motion of the wind, or if the same blows in adirection parallel to the track, and accordingly shifts the detlector topoint obliquely to one side away from the wind or upward. As the trainrushes forward, the air enters the hood B with a corresponding velocity,is given an increased relative motion by the tapering form ofthe hood,and passes on through the conduit A, bearing the smoke, soot, andcinders with it. Vhen this 'air and its contents reach the end of thedetlector-conduit, there is given thereto a sufficient oblique throw tosend the same entirely outside of the influence of the following airenvelope, and hence the windows of the train canbe left wide openwithout danger of the entrance of the smoke and cinders. If the trainpasses about a decided curve, or the wind changes, the deliector can bechanged to suit the new conditions. rIhe conduit may not be entirelytubular, but maybe open laterally more or less. The tubular form,however, I deem preferable. y

WhatI claim as myinvention, and fo'rwhich I desire Letters Patent, is asfollows, to wit:

1. The combination, with the smokestack, of the loosely-held deflectorand means for shifting the same, whereby the smoke and other products ofcombustion issuing from said smoke-stack .are forced by thecounter-current of air to either side of the engine and outside of theinfluence of the accompanying air envelope.

2. The combinatiomwith the locomotive-engine and its smoke-stack, of'thehood fixed to said stack, the deector-conduit loosely connected to saidhood, and means for shifting said deflecto'r-conduit, for the purposeset forth.

3. Thecombination,withthelocomotve-engine and itssmoke-stack, of thehood fixed to the smoke-stack, the defiector-conduit swiveled to therear end of said hood, the rockershaft rigidly connected to saiddellcctor-conduit, and the lever for operating said shaft and conduit.

4. The combinatiomwth the locomotive-engine and its smoke-stack, of thetapering hood B, fixed to said stack, partly over and to the rearthereof, the delectorcond uit loosely at- "tatdto said hood andprojecting obliquely therefrom, and means for shifting saiddeliector-conduit, for the purpose specified.

5. The combination, With a locomotivevengine and its smoke-stack, ofthehood B, Xed to the smoke-stack, the detlector-conduit A, swiveled tosaid hood, therock-shaft C, rigidly connected to said conduitandextending rear- Wardly therefrom, the operating-lever D on said shaft,and the lock E, for holding the le ver, shaft, and conduit in a desiredposition, substantially as set forth. In testimony that I claim theforegoing invention I have hereunto set my hand this 12th day of April,in the year 1886.

A. KEITHLEY, H. W. WELLs.

